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...world in a little town square shaded by pecan and oak trees in remote West Texas, and it was hard to know which found the other more bewildering. The 32-year-old welder wore his hair slicked in a bygone style and sometimes stammered as he spoke in a flat monotone about prophets and the trials sent by God to test him. His cryptic words were directed to a group of people holding television cameras and microphones and tape recorders, people whose impressions of Williams then flashed by satellite and digital relays to households around the world...
...reunite nursing mothers with the 77 kids who are under age 2. Prosecutors worried that the prayer meetings might be used to influence the children "in a way to impede the ongoing investigation," but Walther's suggestion that mainstream Mormons might serve as neutral monitors was turned down flat by the official church. Church spokesman Scott Trotter told the Salt Lake Tribune that the beliefs of the FLDS long ago diverged from orthodox Mormonism and, "in fact, many in these isolated communities view us with some hostility as part of the outside world they have rejected." For the nursing mothers...
Meyer wrote twilight in three months flat. "I know to the day when I became a writer," she says. "One day. Which is cool." Once she'd had the dream, she wrote like a woman struck by lightning, barely sleeping, typing one-handed with a baby in her lap. (At the time, she was taking care of three children under the age of 5.) Even now she does her writing in an open office area in the middle of the house. She's not interested in a room of her own. "I can't close doors and write. Even...
When authors ponder globalization in books like Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat, they usually pay scant attention to Latin America beyond the North American Free Trade Agreement. Who can blame them? Compared with the record growth of and foreign investment pouring into the emerging markets of Asia and Eastern Europe, Latin America still looks globally noncompetitive...
Fortunately, three new books may help remedy that Latin America blind spot and remind us that the hemisphere too is flat. They all take a hard, engaging and overdue look at Latin America's maddening complacency and massive potential--and suggest how to transform it into "the century of the Americas," as George W. Bush declared...